the garrison having fled in a panic; and as Bonga declared
that he did not wish to fight with this Governor, with whom
he had no quarrel, the war soon came to an end. His
Excellency meanwhile, being a disciple of Raspail, had
taken nothing for the fever but a little camphor, and
after he was taken to- Shupanga became comatose. More
potent remedies were administered to him, to his intense
disgust, and he soon recovered. The Colonel in attendance,
whom he never afterwards forgave, encouraged the treatment.
“ Give what is rig h t; never mind him; he is very
(muito) impertinent: ” and all night long, with every draught
of water the Colonel gave a quantity of quinine: the consequence
was, next morning the patient was cinchonized and
better. The sketch opposite represents the scene of action,
and is interesting in an historical point of view, because the
opening in which a large old canoe, with a hole in its bottom,
is seen lying on its side, is the mouth of the creek Mutu,
which in 1861 appeared in a map published by the Portuguese
“ Minister of Marine and the Colonies f as that through
which the chief portion of the Zambesi, here about a mile
wide, flowed to Quillimane. In reality this creek, eight or
ten yards wide, is filled with grass, and its bed is six feet or
more above the level of the Zambesi. The side of the creek
opposite to the canoe is seen in the right of the picture, and
sloping down from the bed to one of the dead bodies, may be
marked the successive heights at which the water of the
main stream stood from flood time in March to its medium
height in June.
For sixty or seventy miles before reaching Mazaro, the
scenery is tame and uninteresting. On either hand is a
dreary uninhabited expanse, of the same level grassy plains,
with merely a few trees to relieve the painful monotony.